On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 13:04:55 +0100 (MET) 
 Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> wrote:

 > Given an unaligned pointer to a struct on the alpha, is it
 > possible to access a byte-sized field of the struct?
 > Or do all struct pointers have to be aligned properly?
 > (I'm sure having an unaligned pointer is non-ANSI, but
 > if it just works I don't care. :-)

No, it won't work.  There is no byte load/store, so byte accesses are
"emulated" by doing larger accesses.

If you ever have a question about alignment on the alpha, the answer is
basically always "yes" :-)

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